A New Iran Deal Won’t Stop the Ayatollahs from Getting the Bomb, but It Will Give Them Millions to Spend on Terrorism
“Based on lies.”
September 2, 2022
When Stalin’s Secret Police Persecuted the Chabad Movement as Spies
The beginnings of the Doctors’ Plot.
Until the Lubavitcher rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, was forced out of the USSR in 1927, his was the largest ḥasidic court to remain in the country. And even after his departure with many of his followers, Chabad-Lubavitch continued to maintain a significant network in the Soviet Union—much of it operating underground to avoid tangling with the authorities—which remained in place until the collapse of Communism. Many Chabad Ḥasidim nonetheless attempted to flee in the years just after World War II, raising the hackles of the political police. Dovid Margolin writes:
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The Fight for the Palestinian Authority Presidency Is Underway
Meet Hussein al-Sheikh, Mahmoud Abbas’s handpicked successor.
Why the Case of the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance Matters for Religious Freedom in America
The dangers of “an unreasonably crabbed view of what it means to be a religious believer.”
When Stalin’s Secret Police Persecuted the Chabad Movement as Spies
The beginnings of the Doctors’ Plot.
The Tusk of an Enormous Prehistoric Elephant Discovered in Israel
Half a million years ago, humans lived in the Negev and hunted these beasts.